GNG News Guy
05-23-2008, 12:04 PM
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Slashdot (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/05/23/1251202.shtml) points to a freshly posted Wikileaks document (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(200 7)) that state the United States is creating a "Pirate Bay Killer" international trade agreement that would "criminalize the non-profit facilitation of unauthorized information exchange on the internet." This would obviously take aim at The Pirate Bay and other P2P websites, but it potentially could also impact whistle-blower sites like Wikileaks, or networks like TOR (http://www.torproject.org/). From the Wikileaks synopsis of the full document (http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/acta-proposal-2007.pdf) (pdf):If adopted, the treaty would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon Internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools."
Laments one Slashdot reader in their comment section:Too late. Pass all the laws you like, crack down with all the jackbooted thuggery you can muster. Suspend habeas corpus, declare the 4th amendment null and void, force the royal family to submit to regular body cavity searches, install a camera on every corner, give police orders to use deadly force against downloaders...none of it will make any difference. You can't turn back the clock.
As I just got done saying yesterday (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/Whats-Behind-Comcasts-Sudden-Love-of-P2P-94646), we're entering a brave new era of anti-piracy enforcement, with ISPs playing the starring role. Comcast plans to begin enforcing DMCA letters by terminating user accounts (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/94185), AT&T is working on piracy filters, the entertainment industry wants piracy filters in network hardware (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/94256) or anti-virus tools (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/91661), while an international coalition focuses on criminalizing all "unauthorized information exchanges."
Is this a Phillip K Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) novel?
Slashdot (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/05/23/1251202.shtml) points to a freshly posted Wikileaks document (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Proposed_US_ACTA_multi-lateral_intellectual_property_trade_agreement_(200 7)) that state the United States is creating a "Pirate Bay Killer" international trade agreement that would "criminalize the non-profit facilitation of unauthorized information exchange on the internet." This would obviously take aim at The Pirate Bay and other P2P websites, but it potentially could also impact whistle-blower sites like Wikileaks, or networks like TOR (http://www.torproject.org/). From the Wikileaks synopsis of the full document (http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/acta-proposal-2007.pdf) (pdf):If adopted, the treaty would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime imposing new cooperation requirements upon Internet service providers, including perfunctory disclosure of customer information, as well as measures restricting the use of online privacy tools."
Laments one Slashdot reader in their comment section:Too late. Pass all the laws you like, crack down with all the jackbooted thuggery you can muster. Suspend habeas corpus, declare the 4th amendment null and void, force the royal family to submit to regular body cavity searches, install a camera on every corner, give police orders to use deadly force against downloaders...none of it will make any difference. You can't turn back the clock.
As I just got done saying yesterday (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/Whats-Behind-Comcasts-Sudden-Love-of-P2P-94646), we're entering a brave new era of anti-piracy enforcement, with ISPs playing the starring role. Comcast plans to begin enforcing DMCA letters by terminating user accounts (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/94185), AT&T is working on piracy filters, the entertainment industry wants piracy filters in network hardware (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/94256) or anti-virus tools (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/91661), while an international coalition focuses on criminalizing all "unauthorized information exchanges."
Is this a Phillip K Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) novel?